Episode 3: kit []
This is it. Hosts Phil Thompson and Eric Armstrong chat about the phoneme /\u026a/ and the lexical set \u2018kit\u2019. On the way, they discuss the history of the vowel, compare it to the /i/ \u2018fleece\u2019 vowel, and /\u0259/ \u2018schwa,\u2019 delve into accent variations of \u2018kit\u2019, pin/pen in the American South, and the traditional usage of the terms \u201cdialect\u201d and \u201cacccent\u201d in North American theatre.
Phil, at one point says that \u201clanguage is a dialect with a navy.\u201d He was, of course, referring to the famous Yiddish quote from Max Weinreich: "A shprakh iz a diyalekt mit an armey un a flot" \u2014'A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.'